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WELCOME TO ROBABOB39 HORROR DVD AND BLURAY REVIEWS AND NEWS. I REVIEW MAINLY HORROR,SCI-FI ACTION,AND SOME COMEDY FILMS. I WILL TRY TO REVIEW MOST NEW RELEASES,ALSO SOME OLDER RELEASES TOO,AND FILMS I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED OVER THE YEARS.I AlSO WANT TO SHOWCASE INDEPENDENT FILMS, FROM SMALLER INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANIES.

Sometimes you have to be close to death untill you realise how alive you are.

Sisters Bree and Jonna both have baggage, sisters with an estranged relationship, meeting after time apart with Bree to discuss her recent engagement to her fiancé. Whilst swimming at a local pool, Both being annoyed that the pool is closing early because of a holiday weekend.

When being kicked out, Brie notices her engagement ring is missing, so dives back into the water to locate it, with it being lodged in a filtering drain, Jonna dives in to help.

It is at this time the pool manager ( Tobin Bell) spots the poolside is now clear and goes through the lockdown motion of covering the pool and locking up, Leaving Brie and Jonna trapped under the perspect cover.

This film has been ridiculed by so many online sites, and I for one cannot understand why, the acting is superb, the one place claustrophobic setting is why it works, we have no sharks, piranhas, killer snakes. What we do have is something that could actually happen in an ordinary situation, with a tired manager not doing his poolside sweep properly, two people stuck under the cover, only 12 inches of breathing space, with hypothermia, tiredness, and Bree's diabetes and possible diabetic coma of missing her insulin shot.

Obviously some parts don't work, the caretaker who decides to play with the girls, by fleecing them of their money, mobile phones, instead of doing the human thing and letting them out, which no person in that situation would do, but then again we do have a film to sell, Bree's finacé who doesn't seem to know where his fiancé is, and is so slow to raise any alarms, Tobin Bell character realising that he never saw the girls leave, but still locks up anyway.

The simple part of this film is why it works, the human side, the side no matter how estranged you are, you are still blood and family and will never change, we learn through the course of the film that Jonna was abused by her dad, and explains her wayward behaviour through adult life, Bree has skeletons in her closet too, alongside her scars she got during a fire in her family home.

With Jonna's suicidal thoughts and wanting to die, and you read the first quote I wrote, you realise being close to death how much you actually want to live.

A solid performance from both female actresses Nora-Jane Noone as Bree, and Alexandra Park as Jonna, in a film that has been so wrongly judged, and like the great film Open Water showing a claustrophobic setting with just two actors, one setting can prove to be a more terrifying experience, than any slasher or horror film.

A surprising claustrophobic thriller, and like Jaws did for oceans, and Psycho for showers I will never look at a public swimming pool the same way again.

I came across this trailer on YouTube yesterday, and it is doing the rounds again on social media, a trailer first showing in 2015, that got everyone talking " is this for real" " this can not be a film can it?" As it turns out no, it is a trailer that is well made, but certainly is not going to be a film anytime soon.
A one joke trailer about a randy ghost intent on jerking men off, using handjobs, I'm surprised the tag line wasn't "Cumming soon".
This was obviously made by men with a running narrative that women cannot give a decent handjob, and having them do the deed is worse than death, instead you have a ghost who wants to jerk all men to death.
It is as awful as you'd expect it to be, but I still found myself chuckle a few times, it is rude, crude, insinuating, and in fairness harmless fun, a film if made I would actually probably watch, it certainly looks better than the recent Cabin Fever, Evil Dead 2013.

Tree is about to have a very bad day, again, and again and again.
College Grad Tree, a self centred bitch, who you take an instant dislike to, who is foul to everyone.
Treats everyone like dirt, then wonders why someone would want her dead. With a groundhog Day loop thing going on every time she is murdered she has to live through the same Monday the 18th, until she can find out her wants her dead, solve her own murder, and maybe become a better person in the mean time.The thing is I really wanted to hate this movie, but I couldn't, because of the performance from Jessica Rothe as Tree, in her first scream queen role, starring previously in La La Land, and Netflix's Parallels.
She is so likeable and believable in the role, although playing the bitch perfectly, she is deep down a damaged soul, still mourning the death of her mother, and her grief is her anger towards fellow People.
With some inventive kills, and no matter what Tree does, the day always ends in her death, with …

A film that strangely has been long forgotten, from 1980, and a film that has no mention about any remake or reboot. That is how this good film has been left on the shelf, compared to other slashers of that decade. Strange as it has possibly the best onscreen kills, with amazing practical effects from Gore master Tom Savini.

Plot summary;
A jilted soldier returns home from world war 2, hearing just before that his girlfriend has replaced him with another man. At the graduation ball of 1945, Rosemary is brutally slain alongside her new boyfriend. Shocking the town, that another ball has been postponed for 35 years. It is now 1980 the ball has been agreed once more, and the jilted soldier is not happy and decides to slay the party goers once more.

Formally known as the Prowler especially in the States, but changed to Rosemary's Killer in the UK. The film apart from the great Gore effects is quite average though, and probably why it has never been remade. With the jilted soldier in…

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Hi I'm Rob, I'm married with a daughter, and have a dog. Currently working part time. I also have my own Horror blog, Robabob39 Horror Film Reviews. I love writing,watching films,and giving my take on Horror films. I wear a beanie,I feel no need to wear a mask. What you see is what you get.